Jasper Fforde quotes

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. (Jasper Fforde)
Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question. View quote
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Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. View quote
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer. View quote
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We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice. View quote
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There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man. View quote
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I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter. View quote
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Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas. View quote
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...Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird. View quote
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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere. View quote
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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is... (Jasper Fforde)
I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you. View quote
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If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote, I must be dafter than I look. View quote
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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds. View quote
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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world. View quote
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse. View quote
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Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea. View quote
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Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory. View quote
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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature. View quote
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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind. View quote
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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction. (Jasper Fforde)
Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath. View quote
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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score. View quote
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That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd. View quote
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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head. View quote
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